Sprinkler-head for watering-carts.



necting device.

. drical valve or cut-off has a solid closed outer provide the inner open end of said valve with `following is a specication.

`be described in detail. making awater-tight connection between the NrTnn STATES EDGAR D. EASTMAN, OF CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

SPRINKLER-HEAD FOR WATERlNG-CARTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 714,566, dated November 25, 1902.

Application tied July 9,1902. senato. 114,877. (No modem To a/ZZ whom/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR D. EASTMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Concord, in the county of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sprinkler-Heads for WateringfCarts, of which the 4This invention relates to improvements in sprinkler-heads for Wateringcarts; and it is carried out as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure l is a central longitudinal section of theimproved sprinkler-head, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line 2 2 shown in Fig. l.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wher,-v ever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

In the drawings, A represents the stationary cylindrical main shell, provided with spray-perforations a a, as shown. Preferably` integral with said perforated main shell is made the supply branch B, adapted to he connected to the tank'of the watering-cart by means of a iexible hose or other suitable con- C is the cylindrical main valve-shellor cutoff, which fits around the shell A and is longitudinally movable thereon, so as to close the spray-openings ct a'yor to expose the same wholly or in part, as may be desired, during the sprinkling operation. The said cylinend C', to the outside of which is preferably secured a bolt C, to which may be connected a lever or other suitable device for adjusting the position of the valve or cut-off O. The said valve may be operated from the footboard of the cart or otherwise,as may be most practical and convenient, and need not here For the purpose of` said cylinder-valve C and sprinkler-sl1ell A, I

a stuffing-box D and packing-rin g cl, as shown in Fig. l, by which arrangement all leakage is prevented when said valve is closed.

Ais a flange on theshell A, which may serve as ameans for limiting the closing movement of the valveC, as shown in Fig. l.

E is a centrally arranged valve-spindle secured to the solid valve end C', and said spinvThe outer end of said sleeve F is closed at f,

as shown in Fig. 1, thus preventing leakage 'through said sleeve. To the inner end of said sleeve F is secured a segmental defiector-blade H,the outer curved portion of which tits within the interior of the main shell A'and may be turned so as to cover suchof the spray-perforations a a, that are on the outer side portion of the shell A, as may be desired in passing a team, person, te., without ejecting water `on such team, person, or other object and .without shutting off the entire iow from the sprinkler-head.

The deiiector-blade H, being attached to the sleeve F, may be oscillated within the shell A by actuating a lever K, attached to the outer end of said sleeve F, as shown in Fig. l.

In practice I make on the outside of the shell A a flange or rib A3, between which and `the ange A is placed the strap or` hanger I,

which passes partially around the exterior of the shell A and may be secured to ears on the exterior of said shell, as shown. The upper ends of said strap or hanger may be secured to the framework of the sprinkler-cart as may be most practical and convenient;

From the above it willbe seen that by lonlindrical valve more or less of the spray-openings ct a may be exposed for regulating the sprinkling operation or entirely closed when so desired, and by adjusting the position of the deflector-plate H the iiow of the water in ahorizontal, or nearly so, direction can be stoppedwhenever so desired, as above stated.

Among the advantages of thismyinvention may he mentioned: The valve-shell C is entirely closed by the solid diaphragm O at its outer end, whereby leakage is prevented at such part. By providing the inner end of said valve-shell with a stuffing-box and stud- `gitudinally adjusting the position of the cy- IOO ing all leakage is prevented between the cyentirely Within the shell A, and is guided in a deilector-blade-actuating sleeve, also concealed and protected within the said shell A. As such spindle and sleeve are not exposed during the longitudinal adjustment of the' valve, they are not liable to injury, breakage, or defacement by coming in contact with passing objects or obstacles on the road.

In my device the deector-blade H is attached to a sleeve F, that is not longitudinally adjustable and projects but slightly beyond the inner end of the shell Aand is thus protected from injury en account of such location, as is also the detlector-blade lever K, which is also arranged at tne inner or back end of the shell A. This is a decided advantage over devices in which the exposed ends of a sleeve and spindle project outside of the adjustable valve shell. By providing the bearing of the rocking sleeve F with a stuifing-box G all leakage and dripping at this place is prevented.

An important advantage resulting from my improved construction'consists in the fact that when the jet-openings a are closed they are covered and protected against the lodgment therein of dust, dirt, grit, and the like, l

and the same is true of the sleeve and spindle E. Whenthe openings a, are open, the Water keeps them free. This is also true of the delector-plate H, which, being arranged on the interior of the shell A, Will freely Work at all times, there being no .opportunity of the -grit getting between said deflector-plate and shell, as there would be if the deflector-plate was arranged externally of the shell.v Moreover, if the deiector-plate was arranged externally of the shell the tendency of the pressure of the Water would be to force said plate from its seat, While by arranging the deiiector-plate on theinterior of the shell the pressure of the Water has a tendency to hold it to its seat.

What I wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim isy In a sprinkler-head, the combination With a cylindrical spray-shell A open at its outer end and provided near said end With a plurality of perforations, a longitudinally-adjustable cylindrical valve closed at its outer` end and itted over the outer end of said shell,

a sleeve centrally journaled in said shell and projecting through the inner end of the latter, a spindle iixed at one end centrally to the closed end of said cylindrical Valve and arranged to be reciprocated in the sleeve, a segmental deiiector-plate rigidly connected to the sleeve and movably arranged in contact with the interior of the shell, and means for rocking the sleeve to adjust the dee'ctorplate, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my si gnature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

EDGAR D. EASTMAN. 

